In my humble opinion, the Technology community should only contain text news/articles or even news pictures.
I simply think that tech videos does not belong to this community, as there is already a videos community which would be more suitable for this.
What does the mods think about this?
That “compromise” would put a lot of work onto the person submitting a video, just because some people don’t like videos.
Yup, and requiring a bit of extra work sounds entirely reasonable to keep the quality of content high.
How about you write the summaries in the comments then if it’s just a bit of extra work?
That’s fine, if the poster really doesn’t want to include it in the original post for some reason.
If you’re asking me to do it, I absolutely do when I post videos. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect others to do the same.
Yes, it is. For a deep dive video a summary is easily several paragraphs long. Not only takes it time to write the summary, for a deep dive it would include making notes during the video, pausing several times, etc. In such a case of a deep dive, this can be an hour of work. So if you want summaries, you do the work. Don’t demand that from others and claim this is somehow a compromise.
You said it, a summary of a deep dive video is a few paragraphs
Don’t fucking post a two hour video that contains a few paragraphs of info then
Exactly. And with AI tools, getting a transcript and generating a summary shouldn’t be all that hard.
All I’m looking for is a handful of bullet points that give me a reason to watch the video. I’m not watching a random video someone posts just based on the headline, I need a bit more reason to invest my time to contribute to the discussion. And if you provide a basic summary, I’ll probably do the legwork and find some articles to add to the discussion while I’m watching the video.
Write a summary bot then.
Then don’t.
You’re not that important. If you don’t contribute to a discussion just because the submission is a video, nobody will notice.
I’m not specifically talking about myself, I’m explaining the sentiment I see here. Me personally not contributing to those posts probably won’t impact anything, and that’s fine. But there’s a lot of pushback from people who prefer text.
All I’m saying is to put in a little effort to link a relevant text article or add a few bullet points that the video covers. That’s it. The barrier to posting stuff should be a little higher than just sending links to things that seem somewhat interesting.
You clearly don’t know what a summary is. I can summarize Lord of the Rings in three sentences. The details are still important.
If you don’t want to watch such a video, DON’T WATCH IT! Don’t forbid others to like what they like!
A post with nothing in it except a video link is not a post to begin with.
Posts should actually have some content in my opinion, otherwise it’s just link dumping which is practically spam.
If I can’t determine from the initial post if a article/video is of interest it shouldn’t have been posted to begin with.
Maybe you shouldn’t be active on a link aggregator platform then.
Ah yes the fabled “link aggregator”.
Lemmy might technically also be that, but it’s first and foremost a discussion platform, although it has an ongoing problem with rampant bot-posts and link-dumpers.